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• One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged. -- Heine
• We should forgive our enemies, but only after they've been taken out and shot.
• Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
  -- Heinrich Heine...
• Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son m tier. (God will forgive me.
  It's his job.) -- Heinrich Heine - last word...
• Of course he [God] will forgive me; that's his business.
  [Bien sur, il me pardonnera; c'est son metier.] -- Heinrich Heine, 1856....
• Mark this well, you proud men of action! You are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
  -- Heinrich Heine...
• Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemie
  but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends....
• Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. -- Heinrich Heine